Internet2 was awarded today a $1.84 million grant by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) for the first year of a two-year project to work with the research and education community to build privacy infrastructure and tools to help individuals preserve their privacy and strengthen the nation's identity ecosystem. Internet2's partners include the Carnegie Mellon and University, Brown University computer science departments, University of Texas, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the University of Utah.
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The consistent and robust privacy infrastructure planned includes common attributes; user-effective privacy managers; anonymous credentials; Internet2's InCommon Identity Federation service; and encourages the use of multi-factor authentication and other technologies.
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